Masevaux

Masevaux
local community	Masevaux-Niederbruck
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Thann-Guebwiller
Coordinates	47 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 0 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 0 ′ E
Post Code	68290
Former INSEE code	68201
Incorporation	January 1, 2016
status	Commune déléguée
	; Place Clémenceau with a baroque fountain

Masevaux ( German Masmünster , Alsatian Màsminschter ) is a former French commune with the last 3,343 inhabitants (as of 2013) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller and the Canton of Masevaux .

With effect from January 1, 2016, the former municipalities of Masevaux and Niederbruck were merged into a commune nouvelle with the name Masevaux-Niederbruck .

geography

Masevaux is located in the south-eastern Vosges . The valley of the Doller widens here before entering the lowlands of the Upper Rhine Plain. The area bordering the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region to the south -west is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .

history

The place has its origin in the Abbey Masmünster (Masevaux) that around the year 720/730 by a etichonids was founded called Maso. Maso owned the nearby Ringelstein Castle . After his son and only heir drowned in the Doller at the age of eight, Maso is said to have founded the Masmünster convent. This monastery achieved the establishment of its own domain. Later the monastery and power fell into the Landsässigkeit Austria. A settlement developed around the monastery, which was elevated to a town in 1217. The monastery was abandoned at the end of the 14th century. At the end of the 16th century the rule came to the noble lords of Bollweiler , and in 1616 as an Austrian fiefdom to the Counts of Fugger ( Fugger von der Lilie ). The Masmünster dominion comprised the entire Dollertal above Masmünster as well as the places Sentheim, Lauw (Au), Guewenheim, Bourbach-le-Haut and Bourbach-le-Bas. In 1648 all Austrian rights fell to the Kingdom of France.

Organ festival

An international organ festival takes place in Masevaux every year during the summer months.

Passion play

Every Sunday since 1930, during Lent, around 200 performers from Masevaux and the surrounding villages have performed a passion play in German.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Residents	3326	3385	3601	3328	3267	3329	3232

Personalities

Margaretha Ursula von Masmünster (approx. 1400–1447 / 48), Dominican nun
Ursula von Masmünster (1515–1570), wife of Erasmus Böcklin von Böcklinsau
Jacques-Louis Battmann (1818–1886), French organist and composer, b. in Masmünster
Julius Manigold (1873–1935), German flautist and composer, b. in Masmünster
Boris Kleint (1903–1996), German artist, b. in Masmünster